diff --git a/doc/godebug.md b/doc/godebug.md
index 7f2a98a539..022687fbb1 100644
--- a/doc/godebug.md
+++ b/doc/godebug.md
@@ -161,6 +161,13 @@ will fail early. The default value is `httpcookiemaxnum=3000`. Setting
 number of cookies. To avoid denial of service attacks, this setting and default
 was backported to Go 1.25.2 and Go 1.24.8.
 
+Go 1.26 added a new `urlmaxqueryparams` setting that controls the maximum number
+of query parameters that net/url will accept when parsing a URL-encoded query string.
+If the number of parameters exceeds the number set in `urlmaxqueryparams`,
+parsing will fail early. The default value is `urlmaxqueryparams=10000`.
+Setting `urlmaxqueryparams=0`bles the limit. To avoid denial of service attacks,
+this setting and default was backported to Go 1.25.4 and Go 1.24.10.
+
 ### Go 1.24
 
 Go 1.24 added a new `fips140` setting that controls whether the Go
diff --git a/src/internal/godebugs/table.go b/src/internal/godebugs/table.go
index 6a9bf4f8ce..103cf01848 100644
--- a/src/internal/godebugs/table.go
+++ b/src/internal/godebugs/table.go
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ var All = []Info{
 	{Name: "tlsmlkem", Package: "crypto/tls", Changed: 24, Old: "0", Opaque: true},
 	{Name: "tlsrsakex", Package: "crypto/tls", Changed: 22, Old: "1"},
 	{Name: "tlsunsafeekm", Package: "crypto/tls", Changed: 22, Old: "1"},
+	{Name: "urlmaxqueryparams", Package: "net/url", Changed: 24, Old: "0"},
 	{Name: "winreadlinkvolume", Package: "os", Changed: 23, Old: "0"},
 	{Name: "winsymlink", Package: "os", Changed: 23, Old: "0"},
 	{Name: "x509keypairleaf", Package: "crypto/tls", Changed: 23, Old: "0"},
diff --git a/src/net/url/url.go b/src/net/url/url.go
index 1d9c1cd99f..97ed30749e 100644
--- a/src/net/url/url.go
+++ b/src/net/url/url.go
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ package url
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"internal/godebug"
 	"maps"
 	"net/netip"
 	"path"
@@ -989,7 +990,30 @@ func ParseQuery(query string) (Values, error) {
 	return m, err
 }
 
+var urlmaxqueryparams = godebug.New("urlmaxqueryparams")
+
+const defaultMaxParams = 10000
+
+func urlParamsWithinMax(params int) bool {
+	withinDefaultMax := params <= defaultMaxParams
+	if urlmaxqueryparams.Value() == "" {
+		return withinDefaultMax
+	}
+	customMax, err := strconv.Atoi(urlmaxqueryparams.Value())
+	if err != nil {
+		return withinDefaultMax
+	}
+	withinCustomMax := customMax == 0 || params < customMax
+	if withinDefaultMax != withinCustomMax {
+		urlmaxqueryparams.IncNonDefault()
+	}
+	return withinCustomMax
+}
+
 func parseQuery(m Values, query string) (err error) {
+	if !urlParamsWithinMax(strings.Count(query, "&") + 1) {
+		return errors.New("number of URL query parameters exceeded limit")
+	}
 	for query != "" {
 		var key string
 		key, query, _ = strings.Cut(query, "&")
diff --git a/src/net/url/url_test.go b/src/net/url/url_test.go
index 6084facacc..944124d20e 100644
--- a/src/net/url/url_test.go
+++ b/src/net/url/url_test.go
@@ -1496,6 +1496,54 @@ func TestParseQuery(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestParseQueryLimits(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, test := range []struct {
+		params  int
+		godebug string
+		wantErr bool
+	}{{
+		params:  10,
+		wantErr: false,
+	}, {
+		params:  defaultMaxParams,
+		wantErr: false,
+	}, {
+		params:  defaultMaxParams + 1,
+		wantErr: true,
+	}, {
+		params:  10,
+		godebug: "urlmaxqueryparams=9",
+		wantErr: true,
+	}, {
+		params:  defaultMaxParams + 1,
+		godebug: "urlmaxqueryparams=0",
+		wantErr: false,
+	}} {
+		t.Setenv("GODEBUG", test.godebug)
+		want := Values{}
+		var b strings.Builder
+		for i := range test.params {
+			if i > 0 {
+				b.WriteString("&")
+			}
+			p := fmt.Sprintf("p%v", i)
+			b.WriteString(p)
+			want[p] = []string{""}
+		}
+		query := b.String()
+		got, err := ParseQuery(query)
+		if gotErr, wantErr := err != nil, test.wantErr; gotErr != wantErr {
+			t.Errorf("GODEBUG=%v ParseQuery(%v params) = %v, want error: %v", test.godebug, test.params, err, wantErr)
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		if got, want := len(got), test.params; got != want {
+			t.Errorf("GODEBUG=%v ParseQuery(%v params): got %v params, want %v", test.godebug, test.params, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 type RequestURITest struct {
 	url *URL
 	out string
diff --git a/src/runtime/metrics/doc.go b/src/runtime/metrics/doc.go
index 079e801ab5..ab54f0687f 100644
--- a/src/runtime/metrics/doc.go
+++ b/src/runtime/metrics/doc.go
@@ -354,6 +354,11 @@ Below is the full list of supported metrics, ordered lexicographically.
 		The number of non-default behaviors executed by the crypto/tls
 		package due to a non-default GODEBUG=tlsunsafeekm=... setting.
 
+	/godebug/non-default-behavior/urlmaxqueryparams:events
+		The number of non-default behaviors executed by the net/url
+		package due to a non-default GODEBUG=urlmaxqueryparams=...
+		setting.
+
 	/godebug/non-default-behavior/winreadlinkvolume:events
 		The number of non-default behaviors executed by the os package
 		due to a non-default GODEBUG=winreadlinkvolume=... setting.